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Wiu.son,  Dr.  Robert  N. — The  American  Boy  and  the  Social  Evil. 

ohn  C.  Winston  Co.,  1905,  $1.00,  postage  6c. 

Zen  er,  Dr.  Philip. — Education  in  Sexual  Physiology  and  Hygiene. 

Robert  Clarke  Co.,  1910,  $1.00,  postage  6c. 

For  Girls. 

Galbraith,  Dr.  Anna  M. — Four  Epochs  of  Woman’s  Life. 

W.  B.  Saunders  Co.,  1907,  $1.50,  postage  10c. 

Latimer,  Dr.  Caroline  W. — Girl  and  Woman. 

\ppleton  & Co.,  1910,  $1.50,  postage  11c. 

Lowry,  Dr.  Edith  B. — Herself. 

Forbes  & Co.,  1911,  $1.00,  postage  8c. 

Mobley,  Margaret  W. — Song  of  Life. 

A.  C.  McClurg  & Co.,  1902,  $1.25,*  postage  8c. 

V;  '.  her.  Dr.  Eliza  M. — Health  and  Happiness. 

Funk  & Wagnalls  Co.,  1912,  $1.00,  postage  10c. 

Saleeby,  Caleb  W. — Woman  and  Womanhood. 

Mitchell  Kennerley,  1911,  $2.50,  postage  13c. 

Smith,  Nellie  M. — The  Three  Gifts  of  Life. 

Dodd,  Mead  & Co.,  1913,  50c.,  postage  8c. 

(Dr.  Mosher’s  and  Miss  Smith’s  books  are  the  best  of  those  mentioned  for  general  use; 
the  others  should  be  used  with  caution.) 

For  Boys. 

Hall,  Winfield  Scott. — From  Youth  into  Manhood  (from  11  to  15  years). 

Association  Press,  1910,  50c.,  postage  5c. 

Hall,  Winfield  Scott. — Instead  of  Wild  Oats  (18  years  and  over). 

Fleming  H.  Revell  Co.,  1912,  25c.,  postage  2c. 

Hall,  Winfield  Scott.— Life’s  Beginnings  (from  10  to  14  years). 

Association  Press,  1912,  25c.,  postage  3c. 

Morley,  Margaret  W. — A Song  of  Life  (for  young  men). 

A.  C.  McClurg  & Co.,  1902,  $1.25,  postage  8c. 

Society  of  Sanitary  and  Moral  Prophylaxis. — The  Young  Man’s  Problem. 

Society  of  Sanitary  and  Moral  Prophylaxis,  1912,  10c.,  postage  2c. 

Willson,  Dr.  Robert  N. — American  Boy  and  the  Social  Evil.  (College  Students.) 

John  C.  Winston  Co.,  1905,  $1.00,  postage  6c. 

Willson,  Dr.  Robert  N. — Nobility  of  Boyhood.  (High  School  Boys.) 

John  C.  Winston  Co.,  1910,  50c.,  postage  4c. 

Eugenics. 

Darp.yshire,  A.  D. — Breeding  and  the  Mendelian  Discovery. 

Cassell  & Co.,  1912,  $2.75,  postage  15c. 

Davenport,  Dr.  Chas.  B. — Heredity  in  Relation  to  Eugenics. 

Henry  Holt,  1912,  $2.00,  postage  17c. 

Jordan,  Dr.  David  Starr. — Heredity  of  Richard  Roe. 

American  Unitarian  Association,  1911,  $1.20,  postage  7c. 

Pun  nett,  R.  C. — Mendelism. 

Macmillan,  1911,  $1.25,  postage  15c. 

SELECTED  LIST  OF  BOOKS  ON  THE  SOCIAL  EVIL 

All  the  books  recommended  in  this  list  can  be  obtained  from  the  American 
Vigilance  Association , Library  and  Editorial  Department,  156  Fifth  Avenue, 
New  York  City. 

Addams,  Jane. — A New  Conscience  and  an  Ancient  Evil. 

Macmillan  Co.,  1912,  $1.00,  postage  7c. 

Chicago  Vice  Commission  Report. 

American  Vigilance  Association,  1911,  50c.,  postage  12c. 

Church  Mission  of  Help. — The  Wayward  Girl  and  the  Church’s  Responsibility. 

1911.  (Pamphlet  for  free  distribution.) 

Cocks,  Orin  G. — The  Social  Evil  and  Methods  of  Treatment. 

Association  Press,  1912,  25c.,  postage  4c. 


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De  Becker,  J.  E. — The  Nightless  City  (Japan). 

Probstain  & Co.  (London),  1899,  $10.00. 

Dock,  Lavinia  L. — Hygiene  and  Morality. 

G.  P.  Putnam’s  Sons,  1910,  $1.25,  postage  8c. 

Fiaux,  Louis. — La  Police  des  Moeurs.  (In  French.) 

Felix  Alcan  (Paris),  1907,  $8.25  express. 

Janney,  Dr.  O.  Edward. — White  Slave  Traffic  in  America. 

National  Vigilance  Committee  (now  American  Vigilance  Association),  1911,  50c.,  postage  6c. 
Kauffman,  Reginald  W. — The  House  of  Bondage.  (Fiction.) 

Moffat,  Yard  & Co.,  1910,  $1.35,  postage  12c. 

Kneeland,  Geo.  J. — Commercialized  Prostitution  in  New  York  City. 

Century  Co.,  1913,  $1.30,  postage  12c. 

Minneapolis  Vice  Commission  Report. 

Byron  & Willard,  1911,  35c.,  postage  5c. 

Murphy,  U.  G. — The  Social  Evil  in  Japan. 

Methodist  Publishing  House  (Tokyo),  1906,  $1.00,  postage  4c. 

Philadelphia  Vice  Commission  Report.  40c.,  postpaid. 

Portland  (Oregon)  Vice  Commission  Report. 

To  be  reprinted  by  the  American  Vigilance  Association,  ready  in  June,  40c.,  postage  8c. 
Robins,  Elizabeth. — My  Little  Sister.  (Fiction.) 

Dodd,  Mead  & Co.,  1913,  $1.25,  postage  10c. 

Roe,  Clifford  G. — Panders  and  Their  White  Slaves. 

Fleming  H.  Revell  Co.,  1910,  50c.,  postage  9c. 

Sanger,  Dr.  W.  W. — History  of  Prostitution. 

Medical  Publishing  Co.,  1913,  $2.00,  postage  21c. 

Seligman,  Prof.  E.  R.  A. — The  Social  Evil.  With  special  reference  to  conditions  existing  in 
the  City  of  New  York.  A report  prepared  under  the  direction  of  the  Committee 
of  Fourteen.  Second  edition,  revised,  with  chapters  on  a decade’s  development — 
1902-1912. 

G.  P.  Putnam’s  Sons,  1912,  $1.75,  postage  14c. 

Syracuse  Moral  Survey  Committee. — Report  on  the  Social  Evil  in  Syracuse. 

1913,  40c.,  postage  6c. 

VIGILANCE. — A monthly,  published  by  the  American  Vigilance  Association. 

This  magazine  correlates  constructive  efforts  for  the  suppression  of  commercialized  vice. 
$1.00  a year.  A department  “Of  Current  Interest”  will  keep  you  informed  concern- 
ing new  movements  throughout  the  country  in  regard  to  The  Social  Evil  and  Sex 
Education. 


REPORT  OF  DENVER’S  LAST 
POLICE  COMMISSIONER 

MEDICAL  EXAMINATION  AS  A CONDITION 
PRECEDENT  TO  ABOLITION  OF 
PROSTITUTION 

*1  submit  to  the  people  of  Denver  this 
statement  of  my  activities  as  police 
commissioner  in  connection  with  the 
abolition  of  commercialized  vice.  That 
I have  not  made  one  before  this  was 
due  to  my  conviction  that  publicity 

* George  Creel.  We  are  not  printing  Mr. 
Creel’s  report  in  full. 


would  interfere  or  possibly  defeat,  and 
to  the  added  belief  that  the  social  prob- 
lem is  not  a proper  subject  for  indis- 
criminate newspaper  discussion.  Since 
I am  now  deprived  of  power  to  continue 
the  work,  however,  it  is  right  that  I 
should  tell  what  has  been  done  in  order 
that  the  people  may  decide  whether  this 
work  has  been  good  and  if  they  wish 
those  who  follow  me  to  carry  it  on. 

When  I assumed  the  commissioner- 
ship  on  June  1,  1912,  I was  instantly 
confronted  with  a demand  for  the  elim: 
nation  of  “Market  Street”  by  means 
of  arrest,  imprisonment  and  police  per 


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and  subjected  to  the  best  physical  ex- 
amination that  the  county  doctor  could 
give.  She  declared  them  free  from  dis- 
ease. I ordered  the  rearrest  of  these 
women,  but  only  twenty-seven  were  se- 
cured. They  were  given  the  blood  test, 


with  these  results: 

Free  from  disease 9 

Diseased  18 

Positive  Wasserman 3 

Positive  antigen 10 

Both  5 

Total 18 


The  case  of  the  “parlor  house  girls” 
is  also  in  point.  As  I was  assured,  the 
very  suggestion  that  they  were  dis- 
eased was  an  “insult.”  Did  they  not 
cater  to  the  “married  trade”?  Was  it 
not  therefore  imperative  that  the  girls 
must  be  watched  carefully?  Why, 
every  one  of  them  was  examined  regu- 
larly by  physicians. 

And  yet,  under  the  blood  test,  the 
examination  of  twenty  “parlor  house 
girls”  developed  that  seventeen  were 
badly  diseased.  Even  were  the  blood 
tests  made,  the  only  accurate  way, 
they  could  not  be  taken  every  day. 
But  aside  from  the  farcical  nature 
of  “medical  examination,”  Mireur  ad- 
vances this  unanswerable  argument: 

“Inscription  upon  the  register  of  the 
Bureau  of  Morals  is  the  final  stage  of 
vice,  the  final  term  of  degradation.  It 
is  the  official  formality  which  regu- 
lates and  legitimates  the  said  trade  of 
prostitution.  It  is,  in  a word,  the  sin- 
ister act  which  severs  a woman  from 
society  and  makes  her  a chattel  of  the 
administration.” 

The  thing  is  not  only  impracticable 


but  impossible.  Lecour  estimates  the 
number  of  Parisian  prostitutes  to  be 
30,000,  of  which  only  4,000  are  regis- 
tered. 

Europe  has  been  forced  to  face  its 
vice  problem.  At  the  great  Brussels 
conference,  held  to  discuss  the  burn- 
ing subject,  the  champions  of  regie- 
mentation  were  compelled  to  confess 
that  it  had  proved  the  “most  lament- 
able failure  in  the  history  of  civiliza- 
tion.” 

Segregation,  like  medical  inspection, 
practically  legitimizes  the  business  of 
prostitution.  And  what  is  to  be 
thought  of  the  legitimization  of  a trade 
that  kills  in  ten  years,  in  which  those 
who  practice  it  are  diseased  inevitably 
during  the  first  year,  and  which  burns 
manhood  and  womanhood  in  a city  as 
surely  as  an  acid? 

There  are  but  two  arguments  against 
abolition.  One  is  that  it  will  simply 
“scatter”;  the  other  is  the  “physiolog- 
ical necessity  of  the  male.” 

The  first  argument  can  be  met  by 
the  sequestration  of  disease  in  hos- 
pitals, so  that  the  problem  will  simply 
be  one  of  law  enforcement.  The  other 
argument  is  a lie.  Ask  any  compe- 
tent physician  and  he  will  tell  you  that 
the  “physiological  necessity  of  the 
male”  is  a fake  and  has  always  been 
a fake.  It  is  simply  the  case  that  we 
have  allowed  the  absurd  claim,  perpet- 
uated the  double  standard  of  morals, 
and  refused  to  impose  the  same  re- 
straint upon  boys  that  we  impose  upon 
girls. 

It  is  in  the  dawn  of  a new  teaching, 
a new  outlook,  that  the  chief  value  of 
abolition  lies.  No  one  is  mad  enough 


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to  expect  that  abolition  will  end  pros- 
titution, but  what  it  will  end  is  the  ig- 
norance and  the  tolerance  that  are  so 
largely  responsible  for  prostitution. 
Once  smash  the  horrible  theory  of  the 


“necessary  evil,”  once  grasp  the  appall- 
ing statistics  of  disease,  once  take  a 
stand  against  this  ancient  trade,  and 
the  way  will  grow  clearer  and  more  cer- 
tain as  we  proceed. 


Current  interest 


SOCIAL  HYGIENE  SOCIETY  SUPPORTED  BY 
STATE 

The  Portland  (Oregon)  Social  Hy- 
giene Society,  whose  work  htis  been  felt 
all  over  the  State  of  Oregon,  has  ex- 
panded from  a City  to  a State  organ- 
ization. State-wide  work  was  formally 
launched  in  March,  backed  by  the  Leg- 
islature, which  voted  an  annual  appro- 
priation of  $10,000  for  this  purpose. 
The  Society  hopes  that  by  forming 
local  Committees,  which  will  be  expected 
to  extend  their  influence  to  surrounding 
towns  and  villages,  every  city,  town, 
village  and  school  district  will  be 
reached  within  two  years.  In  the  prin- 
cipal cities,  there  will  be  organized  Pro- 
motion Committees,  three  members  of 
which  will  be  elected  members  of  the 
State  Committee.  A Bulletin  published 
monthly  will  officially  report  progress. 

THE  NEBRASKA  HOSTELRY  LAW 

Rooming  houses  and  so-called  hotels 
of  Omaha  run  for  immoral  purposes 
that  are  hiding  their  real  nature  under 
the  name  “hotel”  will  have  to  abandon 
that  deception  after  next  July. 

The  new  hotel  law  forbids  the  use  of 
the  name  “hotel”  by  any  rooming  house 
that  is  not  actually  a hotel  in  all  that 
the  word  implies,  and  provides  that  a 


place  merely  a rooming  house  cannot 
be  listed  as  a hotel. 

Every  building  that  has  five  or  more 
rooms  and  serves  meals  under  the  same 
roof  is  to  be  known  as  a hotel  and  is 
subject  to  all  the  regulations  thereof. 
Places  merely  renting  five  rooms  or 
more  and  not  serving  meals  can  only 
be  known  as  rooming  or  lodging  houses. 

All  hotels  and  rooming  houses  must 
be  listed  with  the  State  hotel  inspector 
and  a license,  costing  $2  annually,  pro- 
cured. The  proprietor’s  name  must  be 
listed  and  these  records  will  be  open  to 
the  public. 

Under  the  drastic  provisions  of  the 
new  hotel  statute  so-called  hotels  violat- 
ing the  Albert  law  (The  Injunction  and 
Abatement  Law)  can  more  easily  be 
regulated  and  suppressed. 

NEWS  FROM  CONNECTICUT 

A bill  raising  the  age  of  consent 
from  16  to  18  years  was  introduced  at 
the  present  session  of  the  Connecticut 
General  Assembly.  At  the  hearing  on 
the  bill  various  organizations,  especially 
of  women,  were  represented  but  were  not 
permitted  to  be  heard,  as  the  Chairman 
of  the  Judiciary  Committee  before 
whom  the  hearing  was  to  be,  suggested 
that  counsel  prepare  a substitute  bill 


